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, i'm not against government, but i recognize there's limitations in the terms of what the government can do. but the limitation is based on what we can do well. and as you look at what we're doing, matter of fact, "the debt bomb" exposes that, the "back in black" that we put out shows that, and the oversight we've put out over the last eight years shows where we're not doing it well. so the idea was to raise the question in the minds of the readers of the book. the if you read the federalist papers, the founders described a very, very limited commerce clause involvement of the federal government, a very, very limited expose of what the general welfare clause would be. we've taken those terms -- pardon me -- and markedly expanded them beyond what our founders intended. i mean, if you go to school and you're buying lunch at school and the usda out of washington is telling you what you can eat and what you can't eat rather than your parents and local school board, i would say a certain amount of freedom has been taken away and moved to washington. >> host: but what about the common good
, i'm not against government, but i recognize there's limitations in the terms of what the government can do. but the limitation is based on what we can do well. and as you look at what we're doing, matter of fact, "the debt bomb" exposes that, the "back in black" that we put out shows that, and the oversight we've put out over the last eight years shows where we're not doing it well. so the idea was to raise the question in the minds of the readers of the book. the if you...
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government. for the most part from the internet was built by louis collaborative networks come with that in leaders, without any bureaucrat that people who aren't actually trying to patent their inventions, want working for private corporation a more freely building on each other's ideas that were fighting those ideas sharing them. now, this is one of things where if we had this conversation 40 years ago, you said that the lovely utopian idea and i'm sure that will work well in your commies to mourn for the california when you are making baskets. .. and have transformed so what else can make them? >> host: in future perfect you right to be a future progressive is to be leaving the power of markets, to be a peer progressive then is to believe that the key to continued progress lies in building care networks and its many regions in modern life as possible. what need arises in a society that goes on met the first impulse should be to build a network decided that problem. >> guest: the first part of
government. for the most part from the internet was built by louis collaborative networks come with that in leaders, without any bureaucrat that people who aren't actually trying to patent their inventions, want working for private corporation a more freely building on each other's ideas that were fighting those ideas sharing them. now, this is one of things where if we had this conversation 40 years ago, you said that the lovely utopian idea and i'm sure that will work well in your commies to...
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government. for the most part from the internet was built by louis collaborative networks come with that in leaders, without any bureaucrat that people who aren't actually trying to patent their inventions, want working for private corporation a more freely building on each other's ideas that were fighting those ideas sharing them. now, this is one of things where if we had this conversation 40 years ago, you said that the lovely utopian idea and i'm sure that will work well in your commies to mourn for the california when you are making baskets. .. differ from traditional libertarians, we don't don't think markets self every problem in society. they are not solved by markets and markets create their own problems and prone to bubbles. in the intervet, there are a lot of companies trying to build a global network that would kind of unite computers all around the world. compared to open source pier produced solution of the internet itself and the web and now wikipedia and many other things. there a
government. for the most part from the internet was built by louis collaborative networks come with that in leaders, without any bureaucrat that people who aren't actually trying to patent their inventions, want working for private corporation a more freely building on each other's ideas that were fighting those ideas sharing them. now, this is one of things where if we had this conversation 40 years ago, you said that the lovely utopian idea and i'm sure that will work well in your commies to...
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government. for the most part from the internet was built by louis collaborative networks come with that in leaders, without any bureaucrat that people who aren't actually trying to patent their inventions, want working for private corporation a more freely building on each other's ideas that were fighting those ideas sharing them. now, this is one of things where if we had this conversation 40 years ago, you said that the lovely utopian idea and i'm sure that will work well in your commies to mourn for the california when you are making baskets. .. always in the long run out perform a top down consensually planned system. this isn't inside from an austrian economist, a very important one, which is because the world is so complicated, because the economy is so competent, because the city is so complicated that is trying to understand it is too hard for a small group of china's centrally located planners to ever fully be able to do. and so the way the markets work as they say look, no individual p
government. for the most part from the internet was built by louis collaborative networks come with that in leaders, without any bureaucrat that people who aren't actually trying to patent their inventions, want working for private corporation a more freely building on each other's ideas that were fighting those ideas sharing them. now, this is one of things where if we had this conversation 40 years ago, you said that the lovely utopian idea and i'm sure that will work well in your commies to...
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but it doesn't necessarily involve a government and doesn't
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and the federal government. the federal government of the united states, both when it was the leading force behind slavery, and then after the abolition of slavery, a leading force behind segregation -- the united states government as a government acted terribly towards black americans, and the way in which it acted terribly continues to reverberate in our society. after world war ii, there was a state policy of governmental policy, united states policy, to help people own homes, and a lot of the wealth of americans is in their homes. they that didn't work out so well for black americans because of a formal policy taken by the united states government that influences the black people, and influenced my family. and so ignorance is part of it. denial is part of it. many white americans are extremely allergic to anything that smacks at the accusation of the sort i just lodged. and that's -- and so reparations -- at one level has not borne fruit, but we live in a complicated society. there's another way in which rep
and the federal government. the federal government of the united states, both when it was the leading force behind slavery, and then after the abolition of slavery, a leading force behind segregation -- the united states government as a government acted terribly towards black americans, and the way in which it acted terribly continues to reverberate in our society. after world war ii, there was a state policy of governmental policy, united states policy, to help people own homes, and a lot of...
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government. for the most part from the internet was built by louis collaborative networks come with that in leaders, without any bureaucrat that people who aren't actually trying to patent their inventions, want working for private corporation a more freely building on each other's ideas that were fighting those ideas sharing them. now, this is one of things where if we had this conversation 40 years ago, you said that the lovely utopian idea and i'm sure that will work well in your commies to mourn for the california when you are making baskets. all of these agents in the marketplace will end up coming up with new solutions, problems, meeting people's needs and so on. markets are kind of a peer network in that sense. the pure progresses differedlibs from traditional libertarians and that we don't think that market solves every problem in t society, and the many facets of they areperience that not necessarily successful assault by markets, and markets createtn their own problems. b brown's troubl
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in government particularly has that problem. but i think one of the things, it sounds like you are involved in doing, which is having systems that widen the pool of participation from ordinary citizens who again are not on the payroll. 311 was a great example of that. the other example that i talk about at some length in "future perfect" is developing what we call purchase of the tory budgeting. i'm not just talking about high-tech solutions to problems. this is something that was done with people organizing and reading face-to-face. there is no technology involved. the idea is that in local government, each year there is a certain amount of taxpayer dollars are allocated for funds that are devoted to projects that have been determined by communities and neighbors themselves. so every year from all the neighborhoods -- the communities would get together and they would say, what are their needs in this community? what are we looking for here? the city is growing and they have a lot of infrastructure needs. and the neighbor neighb
in government particularly has that problem. but i think one of the things, it sounds like you are involved in doing, which is having systems that widen the pool of participation from ordinary citizens who again are not on the payroll. 311 was a great example of that. the other example that i talk about at some length in "future perfect" is developing what we call purchase of the tory budgeting. i'm not just talking about high-tech solutions to problems. this is something that was...
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that honor killing is the only way to deal with this if the government won't do so. so in countries around the world there are women who are facing death and shunning from their own communities because of being victimized themselves. and, you know, the one thing i would say to you about being afraid, um, about putting the book out there and about needing the strength which is considerable is the number of times that i wrote columns and as i was writing them i would think, no one else thinks this way, no one else cares about this, nobody's going to respond to this column, i am alone on this. and then i would publish the column, and the mail would pour in from people saying, oh, thank you. thank you for doing that for me. thank you for giving voice to those of us who sometimes feel voiceless. and that response gave me the will to keep on doing what i did, and i think that if you wrote about some of the things that you're talking about, that you would find that there was a community out there that would say the same. >> host: another e-mail from oregon, this from linda
that honor killing is the only way to deal with this if the government won't do so. so in countries around the world there are women who are facing death and shunning from their own communities because of being victimized themselves. and, you know, the one thing i would say to you about being afraid, um, about putting the book out there and about needing the strength which is considerable is the number of times that i wrote columns and as i was writing them i would think, no one else thinks...
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i found a member of the omaha city government who ran parks and recreation. he had an appropriate name, malcolm bryant. he was a really happy engaged guy. i called him and talked about race in omaha. he said i have been waiting for someone to ask. he said you won't be happy in my neighborhood. we will ride around and talk about it. we rode around in omaha and said if you come to the north side and if you want to know what is going on the barbershop or the insurance office. those are the social centers that are male-dominated. he said we don't understand in omaha why on the air you pay so much attention to what is going on in montgomery, alabama were birmingham. we have the same conditions that exist here and are not getting addressed at all. not long after that i moved to atlanta and covered the civil rights movement and not long after that omaha blew up. they had a very lethal race riot going on in that town and a lot of tension. it just exploded because of the northern ghettos that existed and the north refused to acknowledge that. it was a big issue in my
i found a member of the omaha city government who ran parks and recreation. he had an appropriate name, malcolm bryant. he was a really happy engaged guy. i called him and talked about race in omaha. he said i have been waiting for someone to ask. he said you won't be happy in my neighborhood. we will ride around and talk about it. we rode around in omaha and said if you come to the north side and if you want to know what is going on the barbershop or the insurance office. those are the social...
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institutions of government, place of government in our lives. the idea of loyaltity and patriotism all went out the window. civil rights movement went from nonviolent movement led by dr. king depending on rule of law, it went to the streets. you know, violence in america is as as american as cherry pie. so it was a, it was a head-snapping time. there was no question about it and the fact that we emerged from it and reasonably good shape is still fairly astonishing to me. it is a real tribute to the tense aisle strength of this country in a lot of ways. >> host: i began my marriage, tom brokaw writes and my career as journalist in 1962, a straight arrow product of the 1960s. by the time decade was over i had my first taste of the marijuana, i had long hair and weekends i wore bellbottom toms and peasant shirts and as a family we went to hippie festivals in north l.a. meredith and i were raising our children essentially as we had been raised by our great depression and world war ii parents in the midwest. >> guest: we went on to raise our children
institutions of government, place of government in our lives. the idea of loyaltity and patriotism all went out the window. civil rights movement went from nonviolent movement led by dr. king depending on rule of law, it went to the streets. you know, violence in america is as as american as cherry pie. so it was a, it was a head-snapping time. there was no question about it and the fact that we emerged from it and reasonably good shape is still fairly astonishing to me. it is a real tribute to...
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if i might ask you, as a historian who studied the scandals, government, and course of history. including nixon as president. i guess that what i can say is that you hope that we learn important lessons from history. two specific things. first, what needs to be done regarding the citizens united petition. if you might discuss as a matter of public policy, should it be acceptable for him in a run for presidency and refuse to make public tax returns? >> guest: it has happened in american history, and i think the voters will have to make that judgment. it certainly is not required by the law. in general, every candidate should give as much information as possible about his past life. as far as the other -- citizens united, unregistered independents, i suggest that they stay out of current politics. because it's not what i do and because i think my political views on current events are not any better than anyone else's. i basically have a platform. forgive me for excusing myself from talking about that, at least for the next 30 years or so. >> host: mr. beschloss, i did want to poin
if i might ask you, as a historian who studied the scandals, government, and course of history. including nixon as president. i guess that what i can say is that you hope that we learn important lessons from history. two specific things. first, what needs to be done regarding the citizens united petition. if you might discuss as a matter of public policy, should it be acceptable for him in a run for presidency and refuse to make public tax returns? >> guest: it has happened in american...
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peace at a heavy price and strong centralized national government. or later and political fashion. >> guest: joe kennedy was very emotional from time to time. during these periods, he would think that something was happening that was apocalyptic. during the 1930s, entire financial system would come crashing down and the masses will come and take the money away from rich people when no one was safe. this is the way he would've described it. of course, in the 1940s, he thinks this will be the end of the world. as indeed, it did. i think that is probably a lot of where this came from. a lot of other people have these views. but in kennedy's views were so emotional. we have a son, jack, who is noted for his extreme detachment and almost hyper ability to take a look at political problems and analyze them. i think to some extent, that was a reaction from his father, who we love very much, but who was a different person hosni mubarak how does this book treat joe kennedy? >> guest: there's a fine book coming out this fall. the first biography it uses all the
peace at a heavy price and strong centralized national government. or later and political fashion. >> guest: joe kennedy was very emotional from time to time. during these periods, he would think that something was happening that was apocalyptic. during the 1930s, entire financial system would come crashing down and the masses will come and take the money away from rich people when no one was safe. this is the way he would've described it. of course, in the 1940s, he thinks this will be...
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the federal government of the united states. when it was the leading force behind slavery, a leading force behind segregation. the government acted terribly toward black americans. the way in which it acted terribly continues to reverberate in our society after world war ii. there was a state policy and united states policy to help people and the lot of the wealth of americans lodged in their homes but that didn't work well because of a formal policy by the united states government that influences black people and my family and so ignorance is part of it. the nile is part of it. many white americans are extremely allergic to anything that smacks at accusations--so that -- reparations at one level has not borne fruit but we live in a complicated -- we live in a complicated society. there is another way--that is through for instance affirmative-action. affirmative-action -- the main motive power behind affirmative action is as far as i am concerned preparatory justice. it is a type of preparation. it has not been packaged that way
the federal government of the united states. when it was the leading force behind slavery, a leading force behind segregation. the government acted terribly toward black americans. the way in which it acted terribly continues to reverberate in our society after world war ii. there was a state policy and united states policy to help people and the lot of the wealth of americans lodged in their homes but that didn't work well because of a formal policy by the united states government that...
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the merger of a corporation and government power. and that was set by the infamous bonito mussolini. in the 1920s. the republican party, i think, today, they are a corporate power and government power. together. any comment? >> guest: we see corporations from both sides, working both sides of the aisle, as well as they well. if not to further their own interests directly to keep government from coming down on them, and what we have seen recent administrations have come under the obama administration with the bailout of certain industries, the takeouts certain industries, not necessarily socializing something, but becoming partners with gm or chrysler or with the health care situation. were you could point to certain things with the pharmaceuticals, the pharmaceutical industry was in favor of certain things about certain other things require no co-pays or require that generics shall not be used. this tends to favor the industry. you have partnerships come you have partnerships with ethanol and at or whatever. and so he you can point t
the merger of a corporation and government power. and that was set by the infamous bonito mussolini. in the 1920s. the republican party, i think, today, they are a corporate power and government power. together. any comment? >> guest: we see corporations from both sides, working both sides of the aisle, as well as they well. if not to further their own interests directly to keep government from coming down on them, and what we have seen recent administrations have come under the obama...
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and, you know, at the start of the campaign, well, of course, it was a government-provided train. but, you know, paying for everything else they really were terribly short of money. at the end of the campaign, the numbers, the numbers flip, and you take a look at the receipts of the campaigns. the democrats actually take in more but that's like a lot of checks that come in, you know, after the game is won. it's like, oh, i'm your friend, i'm your friend. but, yes, they had terrible, terrible problems in putting together a campaign. one of the other things where they were short of money on was -- and they did, you know, catch as catch can -- this is the year that the television starts. only, basically, on the east coast and a few other areas like, you know, from boston maybe down to washington, and you flip out to cleveland or somewhere. limited networks. but what is still a big factor because the movies ain't yet died is the newsreels. and dewey puts together a documentary, tom dewey, next president of the united states, unity, efficiency, the man for the job, working with congres
and, you know, at the start of the campaign, well, of course, it was a government-provided train. but, you know, paying for everything else they really were terribly short of money. at the end of the campaign, the numbers, the numbers flip, and you take a look at the receipts of the campaigns. the democrats actually take in more but that's like a lot of checks that come in, you know, after the game is won. it's like, oh, i'm your friend, i'm your friend. but, yes, they had terrible, terrible...
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they were students of the pump -- republican government. on the other hand was the idea that the legislature, the congress should pick the president. that led some people to say, if we go that way, it will just lead to a ball and factions and secret deals. they thought then that the president would be too much in the control of congress. they wanted a separation of powers. that was such a key, driving force for these men. so they came up with this compromise of electors, and they did not really know who they should be or how they should be chosen. they specifically said, they can't be members of congress or people who profit from the government in any way. and so they left that up to the state, how they would be chosen. some of the states chose direct election of the electors, some states chose the election of directors or selection of lectures by the legislature. this was truly left up to the states at that time. no, as time has gone by, obviously, and the country has grown, many of those reasons, even if they were practical and made sense
they were students of the pump -- republican government. on the other hand was the idea that the legislature, the congress should pick the president. that led some people to say, if we go that way, it will just lead to a ball and factions and secret deals. they thought then that the president would be too much in the control of congress. they wanted a separation of powers. that was such a key, driving force for these men. so they came up with this compromise of electors, and they did not really...